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LEARNED v. WATT

No. C81-009K.

528 F.Supp. 980 (1981)

James R. LEARNED, Leah P. Golden, Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc., Petroleum Exploration, Inc., R. Hal Johnson and Griffin and Burnett, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior, and Maxwell T. Lieurance, Wyoming State Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Defendants, and Sierra Club; the Wilderness Society; Izaak Walton League; Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning; and National Parks and Conservation Association, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

December 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Learned, Cheyenne, Wyo., and C. M. Peterson of Poulson, Odell & Peterson, Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs.

Francis Leland Pico, Asst. U. S. Atty., D. Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Kathryn A. Oberly and Arthur E. Gowran, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Alan B. Minier of Hirst & Applegate, Cheyenne, Wyo., and William S. Curtiss of the Sierra Club Defense Fund, Inc., Denver, Colo., for defendants-intervenors.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KERR, District Judge.

This action is before the Court upon an appeal from the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA). Plaintiffs were applicants for oil and gas leases on certain lands located north of the 11th Standard Parallel in Teton County, Wyoming. The applications were filed pursuant to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, 30 U.S.C. § 181 et seq., but were denied by the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management office (BLM). The basis...

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